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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#2427: KFM & MIME types
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       1999-12-17 20:38:11
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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, David Faure wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 03:18:20PM -0500, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Cameron Newham wrote:
> > > Package: KFM (file manager)
> > > Version: the version supplied with RedHat Linux 6.1
> > >          (sorry - don't have KDE here to check).
> > > 
> > > I find it very hard to figure out how to associate an application with
> > > a file type. Indeed, even after reading the manual for KFM I can't work
> > > it out. The manual is just confusing (eg: where it talks about loading
> > > in a new application and talks about seeing what ones are available by
> > > pressing the "right mouse button" - where?! In KFM?  In the desktop?).
> > > 
> > > That aside - it's too hard. I want KFM to do the same as Windows Explorer -
> > > when displaying the browse dialogue after clicking on a file type I
> > > want to see a checkbox saying "always open this type with this application?".
> > > I don't want to understand MIME. I don't want to understand how to get KFM
> > > to recognise applications. I don't want to understand .kdelnk files.
> > > 
> > > I just want the Winblows way of doing it (quick and simple).
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > 
> > Good point, but it has already been addressed in kfm's predecessor, konqueror :)
> > 
> 
> You mean "successor", not "predecessor" :-)

Sometimes I think I belong in the second grade... :((((

Regards,
Dawit A.

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